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Joy to the World
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — Joy to the World is a popular Christmas carol written by Isaac Watts and based on Psalm 98.
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Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee is a poem written by Henry van Dyke in 1907 with the intention of musically setting it to the famous Ode to Joy melody of the final movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s final symphony, Symphony No. 9.
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Just As I Am
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — Just as I Am is a well-known hymn, written by Charlotte Elliott in 1835. In the latter half of the twentieth century the hymn was popularized as an altar call song in the Billy Graham crusades.
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Like A River Glorious
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — Frances Ridley Havergal scholastic achievements were extensive, embracing several modern languages, together with Greek and Hebrew. Her poems are permeated with the fragrance of her passionate love of Jesus. Some of her more well-known hymns include “Golden harps are sounding,” “I gave my life for thee,” “Jesus, Master, Whose I am,” “Lord, speak to me,” “O Master, at Thy feet,” “Take my life and let it be,” and “Tell it out among the heathen.”
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Low in the Grave (Christ Arose)
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — Robert Lowry is most remembered as a composer of gospel music and a hymn writer, including working with Fanny J. Crosby. He was responsible for around 500 compositions, including “Nothing But the Blood,” “Christ Arose” (“Low in the Grave He Lay”), “Shall We Gather At The River?,” and “How Can I Keep From Singing?”
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Man of Sorrows
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — Philip Paul Bliss wrote many well-known hymns, including Almost Persuaded; Hallelujah, What a Saviour! (Man of Sorrows); Wonderful Words of Life, and the tune for Horatio Spafford’s It Is Well with My Soul.
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More Love To Thee
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (26 October 1818 – 13 August 1878) was an author, well known for her hymn More Love to Thee, O Christ.
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My Faith Has Found a Resting Place
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — Although Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (1851 – 1920) developed a spinal malady which made her a shut-in for many years, she still wrote over 1800 hymns, including My Faith Has Found a Resting Place, More About Jesus Would I Know, and Sing the Wondrous Love of Jesus.
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My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less (On Christ the Solid Rock)
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less (On Christ the Solid Rock) was written by Edward Mote, a pastor at Rehoboth Baptist Church in Horsham, West Sussex, in 1834.
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My Jesus I Love Thee
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — My Jesus I Love Thee is a poem written by William Ralph Featherston around 1864. Featherston is said to have been either 12 or 16 years old when he wrote the poem.
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Now Thank We All Our God
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — Now Thank We All Our God is a German hymn written around 1636 by Martin Rinkart. It was translated into English in the 19th century by Catherine Winkworth.
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O Come All Ye Faithful
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — Adeste Fideles is the tune name. The original text has been from time to time attributed to various groups and individuals, including St. Bonaventure in the 13th century or King John IV of Portugal in the 17th.
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O Come O Come Emmanuel
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — O come, O come, Emmanuel is a Christian hymn for Advent. The tune most familiar in the English-speaking world has its origins in 15th-century France.
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O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — To commemorate the renewal of his faith following a particularly difficult illness, Charles Wesley wrote an 18-stanza poem, beginning with the opening lines Glory to God, and praise, and love,/Be ever, ever given. It was published in 1740. The seventh verse, which begins, O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing.
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O Little Town of Bethlehem
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — The text was written by Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), an Episcopal priest, who served a church in Philadelphia. In 1865, he visited the village of Bethlehem. Inspired by his memory of that visit, he wrote the poem, O Little Town of Bethlehem for his church.
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O Sacred Head Now Wounded
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — O Sacred Head, Now Wounded is a Christian Passion hymn based on a long medieval Latin poem with stanzas addressing the various parts of Christ’s body hanging on the Cross. The last part of the poem, from which the hymn is taken, is addressed to Christ’s head.
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O The Deep Deep Love of Jesus
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — O the Deep, Deep, Love of Jesus was written by the London merchant Samuel Francis. As a teenager, he had contemplated suicide one night on a bridge over the River Thames. The Lord converted him and he went on to author many poems and hymns.
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O Worship the King
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — O Worship the King was written by Robert Grant, who was a British politician and lawyer. This hymn is based on Psalms 104.
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Once in Royal David’s City
$1.95 Add to cart*Beginner Level — Once in Royal David’s City is a Christmas carol originally written as a poem by Cecil Frances Alexander.
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Praise to the Lord
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — Praise to the Lord, the Almighty is a hymn of God's creation. The title is taken from the first line: “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation.” It is an English translation by Catherine Winkworth.
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Saviour of the Nations, Come
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — Saviour of the Nations, Come was written by Ambrose who lived in the 4th century (340-397).
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Silent Night
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — Silent Night (German: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) is a popular Christmas carol. The carol has been translated into about 140 languages.
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Softly and Tenderly
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — Softly and Tenderly is a hymn written by Will L. Thompson, who was a composer of gospel, secular, and patriotic songs.
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Stricken, Smitten and Afflicted
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — Stricken, Smitten and Afflicted was written by Thomas Kelly. The music is set to a German chorale text, “O mein Jesu, ich muss sterben” (O my Jesus, I must die).
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Sun of my Soul
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — John Keble (25 April 1792 – 29 March 1866) was an English churchman and poet. He wrote dozens of hymns, including Sun of my soul, and God, the Lord, a King remaineth.
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The First Noel
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — The First Noel is a traditional classical English Christmas carol. “Noel” is an early English word that means “Christmas.”
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The Old Rugged Cross
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — As a Methodist evangelist, Bennard wrote the first verse of “The Old Rugged Cross” in Albion, Michigan, in the fall of 1912 after he was ridicule during a revival meeting. Several days later he completed it and sang it as a duet at another one of his meetings.
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There is Power in the Blood
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — In an interview with Preacher Magazine in 1950, Lewis Edgar Jones (who wrote Power in the Blood) said, “In regard to the writing of my songs, [I] would say that a great many came from sentences in a pastor’s sermons … I remember that ‘Power in the Blood’ was written during a camp meeting at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland.”
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This Is My Father’s World
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — This is My Father’s World is a hymn written by Maltbie Davenport Babcock, a minister from New York. The piece was published after his death in 1901 at age 42.
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Trust and Obey
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — The music for Trust and Obey was composed by D. B. Towner, the first director of music at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.
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We Gather Together
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — We Gather Together is a Christian hymn of Dutch origin. In the United States, it is popularly associated with Thanksgiving Day.
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What A Friend We Have In Jesus
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — What a Friend We Have in Jesus is a Christian hymn originally written by Joseph M. Scriven as a poem in 1855 to comfort his mother who was living in Ireland while he was in Canada.
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What Can Wash Away My Sin?
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — Robert Lowry was responsible for around 500 compositions, including Nothing But the Blood, Low in the Grave He Lay (words and music), Shall We Gather At The River?, and How Can I Keep From Singing?
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What Child Is This?
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — What Child Is This? is a Christmas carol whose lyrics were written by William Chatterton Dix, in 1865.
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When He Cometh
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — William Orcutt Cushing wrote a large number of songs that found wide popularity in Sunday school.
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When I Survey
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — The hymn, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, was written by Isaac Watts, and published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707.
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When Peace Like A River
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — It Is Well With My Soul (also known as “When Peace Like A River”) was written after several traumatic events in Spafford's life, including losing his daughters in a shipping accident.
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While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
$1.95 Add to cartBeginner Level — While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks is a Christmas carol describing the Annunciation to the Shepherds.
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Who Is This So Weak and Helpless?
$1.95 Add to cart* Beginner Level — William Walsham How (December 13, 1823 – August 10, 1897) published several volumes of sermons and wrote a good deal of verse, including such well-known hymns as Who is this so weak and helpless; O Word of God Incarnate; and, O Jesus, thou art standing.